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- Subject: Re: Rising Insurance Charges versus decreasing Accident Rate (U.K)
- Message-ID: <gVR1XB3w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 21:02:51 PST
- References: <mjs.727995833@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Robert Smits
- Keywords: insurance, accidents
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- mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
-
- >
- > Last weeks U.K. Motorcycle News carried a story about how the
- > number of motorcycle deaths in this country had virtually halved
- > over the last five years, making motorcyclists the only group
- > of road-users to have met the governments targets for reducing
- > deaths on the road - only the targets were intended to be achieved
- > in something like five years time.
- >
- > What I want to know is this - why, when the number of deaths is dropping,
- > and also presumably the accident rate, is the cost of motorcycle insurance
- > going through the roof?? Are insurance companies making fortunes out
- > of us?? Were we getting our insurance on the cheap before?? Is it the cost
- > of all the plastic fairings on our racer-reps that we are paying for??
- > Is it the increasing numbers of machines being stolen??
- >
- > Anyone out there got any answers??
-
-
- No, but i suggest you look at the average cost per claim, and see if that
- has gone up or not.
-
- In addition, just because the total number of accidents has decreased, it
- does not mean that the average number of accidents per rider has
- decreased, only that there are less riders (and less insurance premiums
- to cover the cost).
-
- You may find that although you have less riders, that they are having the
- same number or more accidents, and /or the accidents they are having are
- getting increasingly more costly, due at least in part to the conditions
- you mentioned.
-
-
- Robert Smits Ladysmith BC | Why do Englishmen drink warm beer?
- emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca | They all have Lucas refrigerators.
-